...this insignificant fellow with the unsavoury reputation and the heretical opinions.

By his heretical views on sport and soma, by the scandalous unorthodoxy of his sex-life, by his refusal to obey the teachings of Our Ford and behave out of office hours, ’even as a little infant,’ " (here the Director made the sign of the T), "he has proved himself an enemy of Society, a subverter, ladies and gentlemen, of all Order and Stability, a conspirator against Civilization itself.

He sat for some time, meditatively frowning, then picked up his pen and wrote across the title-page: "The author’s mathematical treatment of the conception of purpose is novel and highly ingenious, but heretical and, so far as the present social order is concerned, dangerous and potentially subversive.

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It is a hardline form of Sunni Islam that condemns all other strains as heresy.

Before the separation of Church and State, an accusation of heresy could be treated as treason.